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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: beauty, body-image, diet-industry, eating-disorders, self-esteem, weight
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: inspirational
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    Hedy Lamarr
    “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
    ― Hedy Lamarr
    tags: funny
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    Hedy Lamarr
    “I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. ”
    ― Hedy Lamarr
    tags: humor-boredom
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    Hedy Lamarr
    “Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.”
    ― Hedy Lamarr
    tags: age, humor, men
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    Hedy Lamarr
    “My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.”
    ― Hedy Lamarr
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    Colette
    “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
    ― Colette
    tags: cats, company, time, waste
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    Colette
    “There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
    ― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Œuvres complètes
    tags: solitude, wine
    366 likes

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    Colette
    “There are no ordinary cats.”
    ― Colette
    tags: cats
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    Colette
    “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
    ― Colette
    tags: inspirational
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    Colette
    “If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”
    ― Colette, Gigi and The Cat
    tags: humor, marriage, men
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    Colette
    “When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
    ― Colette, Claudine and Annie
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    Colette
    “Youth is not the age to seduce, it's the age to be seduced.”
    ― Colette, The Pure and the Impure
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    Colette
    “Be happy. It's one way of being wise”
    ― Sidonie-Gabrielle
    tags: happiness
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    Colette
    “The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
    ― Colette
    tags: jealousy
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh
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    Hélène Cixous
    “Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
    ― Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
    tags: feminism, self-expression, writing
    208 likes



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